The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-09-30
wound. "1t's q nasty cut" he said, ssbut
the spear has not pierced tho entrails. Ho

wound. ''It's q nasty cut" he said, 'sbut
the spear has not pierced tho entrails. He
will recover"
"Thanks to your arrival, my father" I
answered. I'm another minute we should
all have been beyond the reach of recov.
cry, for those devils Of yours would have
slain us as they have slain our servant"
and I pointed toward Mahomed.
Tho old man ground his teeth, and I saw
an extraordinary expression Of malignity
light up his eyes.
Pear not, my son." he answered. "ven.
geance shall be taken on them such a.
would make the flesh twist upon the bones
merely to hear of 1t. To She they shallgo
and her vengeance shall be worthy of her
greatness. That man." and he pointed to
Mahomed, ~ tell you that man would
have died q merciful death to tho death
these hyona- men shall die. feline, Ipray
Of thee, how 1t came about."
In a few words I sketched what had hap
pened.
"Ah, co." he answered. "Thou seest,
my son, here there is n custom that If q
stranger comes into this country he may
be slain by the pot and eaten"
ut is hospitality turned upside down,"I
answered, feebly. "In our country we en-
terrain O stranger, and give him food to
eat. Here 70 eat him, and are enter
tained."
ut Is q CUSTOM" he answered with a
shrug. "Myself I think it IN evil one; but
then" he added, by an after-thought, 81
do not like the taste of strangers, especial
ly after they have wandered through the
swamps and lived on wild-fowl. When
Shc-lUhO-naustbe- 0beycd sent orders that
ye were to be saved, she said naught of the
black man; therefore, being hyneas, these
men lusted after his flesh, and the woman
It was whom thou didst rightly STAY who
put 1t into their evil hearts to hot-pot him.
Well, they will have their reward. Better
for them would 1t be if they Ind never
seen the light than that they should stand
before She in her terrible anger. Happy
"a those of them that died by vo!.r hands
"Ah," he went on, SIT was q gallant
fight that ye fought. Knowest thou that
thou, long-armed old Balloon that thou
art, hast crushed in the ribs of those two
who are laid out there Us though they were
but as the shell of an egg! And the young
one, the lion, it was n beautiful fight that
he madc-one against SO many-thrcc did
he STAY outright, and that n there and
he pointed to q body that WAS still moving
q little, twill die anon, for his head is
cracked across, and others of those .7ho
are bound are hurt. 1t ives q gallant fight,
and ye and he have made n friend of mo
by 1t, for / love to see n well-fought fray
But tell me, my son, the Baboon-and now
I think Of it thy face, too, is hairy, and al
together like n baboon's-how was it that
ye slew both those with a hole in them?
Yc made a noise, they say, and slew them
they fell down OH their faces at the
noisey"
Icxplained to him as we'll as Icould, but
very shortly-I was terribly wcaricd, and
only persuaded to talk Mt all through fear
of offending n SO powerful If I refused
to do so-what were the properties of gun
powder, and he instantly suggested that l
should illustrate what l said by operating
on the person of IL Of the prisoners. One,
he said, never would be missed, and ii
would not only be very interesting to him,
but would give me an opportunity of n min
stallment of revenge. He was greatly
%astoundcd when I told him that it was not
our custom to avenge ourselves in cold
blood and that we left vengeance to the
law and u higher Power, of which he knew
nothing. added, however, that when ]
recovered l would take him out shooting
with us, and he should kill an animal fol
himself, and ut this he was as pleased as
child at the promise of a new toy.
just then Leo opened his eyes beneath
the stimulus of some brandy (of which we
still had a little that Job had poured dowr
his throat, aud our conversation carzs h
an end.
tn ho nanttr,,oJ